Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Fragment of a votive bracelet

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Description

Faience

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Small, roughly rectangular fragment with a mottled brownish surface and faint dark markings, likely part of a decorative votive object.

The image shows a small stone/faience-like fragment photographed against a light background. The piece is vertically oriented and has a broad, flat face with uneven edges, suggesting breakage. Its surface is mottled with bands of darker and lighter areas; within the central region are a few faint, dark incisions or pigment-like markings that could be remnants of decoration, but no clearly legible hieroglyphs or a cartouche are visible at this resolution. No clear figures of deities, royal names, or distinct symbol sets can be confidently identified. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside) — consistent with catalogue, but no diagnostic text visible fragmentary
Materials faience (color/texture consistent; exact confirmation limited by image resolution)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442706 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.28 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573216 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.